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Michael C. Heim became vice president information technology and chief information officer of Eli Lilly and Company in January 2004. Heim is a member of the senior management council. He had been the chief technology officer with accountability for enterprise architecture and data strategy the global implementation of SAP and global financial and human resources information technology solutions since November 1999.
A native of Cincinnati he received a bachelor of arts degree in business administration from Marian College in 1977 and a master of business administration in 1978 from Bowling Green State University.
Heim joined Lilly in 1979 as an analyst in the corporate information systems group. He become a staff financial auditor for the financial component in 1981 and later become the company’s first certified information systems auditor. In 1985 he rejoined information systems as manager with responsibility for manufacturing marketing financial and human resource systems support. He was named manager of engineering for facilities delivery administration in 1989 and director of information systems-medical operations in 1992. In 1995 he was promoted to information officer for Lilly Research Laboratories and in 1998 was named information officer for European and intercontinental operations with responsibility for IT activities outside the United States.
Heim serves on a number of executive councils including the Lotus Advisory Board the Microsoft Pharmaceutical Advisory Council the SAP Life Sciences Executive Council the Dean’s Advisory Council – Indiana University School of Informatics and the Board of Directors of Interactive Intelligence Inc. | 